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In this self-portrait, Coyote Park reveals the artist’s role as seer and innovator of their own identity. Both uninhibited and majestic, Coyote offers the viewer an intimate and assertive vision of two-spirit transmasculinity, while disrupting binary expectations of hypermasculine presentation. Coyote’s ethereal ambiguity commands power, which is particularly poignant in a post-colonial world designed to make queer people feel both small and defenseless. This portrait reads as a personal love letter to ancestral tradition and the multiplicity and expansiveness of the self.

From the 2023 exhibition Love as Ceremony: Legacies of Two-Spirit Liberation, A Space for Dialogue 114, curated by Moonoka Begay '23, Conroy Intern

Course History

Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 2.01, Introduction to Queer Studies, Eng-Beng Lim, Summer 2023

Exhibition History

A Space for Dialogue 114, Love as Ceremony: Legacies of Two-Spirit Liberation, Moonoka Begay, '23, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 19 August - 14 October 2023.

Provenance

The artist, Coyote Park; sold to present collection, 2023.

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